My daughters like painting and I make custom frames for their paintings. The materials are purchased at the local construction supplies store. Each frame takes a few hours of work, combined (due to glueing, painting - it takes four evenings in total: 15 min-half an hour spent each day) and $35-40 on raw materials.
This time my yonger daughter decided to paint on a smaller canvas, so I used another type of molding for the frame.
Such modlings in my nearest home hardware store are sold in 8' pieces, and I have left overs which will be used next time. I do not have an electric miter saw, so a simple miter box was used.
Measurements:
The inner dimensions have to be smaller than the canvas size (I used 1/8'' indent from each side, in assumption that I will remove more by electric sander, so if you will be accurate and precise enough - it's better to take bigger indents, something like 1/4''). My canvas was 14x11'', and I used 13 6/8 x 10 6/8 inner dimension.
Cutting (better to use clamps, but I was lazy, and my hand can still hold the wood firmly enough)
Checking by square (this one is good)
Oops! This one was bad
Fixing by sanding...
Now it is better
Just checking the dimensions before glueing (measure seven times, cut once!)
My wife is better at painting, so this job was outsourced to her
We tried a lot of stains from the hardware stores and the coverage was far from perfect, untill we found a gel paint (recommended by professionals) which was bought in a specialty store (it is more expensive than usual stains but you can probably paint hunders of frames using one can, so it is a good investment if you do a lot of such paint work). Staining is done by a piece of cloth, an old sock is good enough
Filling gaps using thin brush. Notice that we decided to paint before glueing because stain does not penetrate through the glue, leavings unstained spots, therefore we are staining first and then glueing
I used carpenter glue for glueing the frame, putting it on a flat surface while it is drying (I missed the picture with clamps, sorry!).
My wife decided (and I always trust her decisions!) to use a little bit of gold paint in the middle - to add some touch to it.
To cover the edges (the canvas is pretty thick: 11/16'') the gap is filled with simple moldings (squares would work too)
I didn't forget to make a photo of clamping!
I used some scrap sticks to hold the canvas (they are not visible anyway)
From the front (and after applying polyurethane finish)
Couple of screws for hanging wire
Fixing the canvas by hot glue
The hanging wire
Done!
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